Monthly Archives: March 2017

This week we had the pleasure of welcoming some of our mums to join our latest radio club group in their very first live broadcast.

The children had planned some excellent features and written professional scripts. Everyone was also very professional and showed how well they had developed their skills in microphone technique and using time checks and handovers to put together a very slick show!

Our thanks to Mrs Batten, Mrs Caston and Mrs Mavridis for the superb delivery of the week’s weather and for joining in so early in the morning. A big well done to the children as well for being so confident in their first live show.

After a week of completely independent planning, organisation and preparation, the children delivered another fantastic broadcast this afternoon all live, of course from 2.30pm. With another perfect blend of school, community and world news, as well as topical features and even a feature on the hugely successful £1 challenge for the Helen Hodgkin’s Trust that Orchid class took part in last week, this was another show not to be missed.

With a Breakfast Show to look forward to on Monday, live from 8.30am and starting our Mother’s Monday off in the best way possible, there is so much happening at Westwood Radio! Enjoy the listen again and our brand new podcast intro!

This week we have another fantastic show lined up for you with some new features on cooking club, after school clubs and more myths and legends from Orchid class blog on orchid.westwoodblogs.org. This show has been entirely planned and scripted in the children’s own meeting yesterday and with Isabel on emails and shout outs, some correspondence would be great! Text 078600 17404 or email radio@westwoodwithiford.org to get involved. With over 400 listeners to our station last week from 15 countries, we are growing by the day!

This afternoon the children of Westwood Radio put together another fantastic show for their listeners. Live once again from 2.30pm, everyone had chosen their own feature and scripts were well prepared and beautifully delivered as always.

With a perfect mix of jingles and an interview with the winner of the 2017 Bath Half Marathon Women’s Race, together with special features from our blogs and this week’s £1 challenge this is a show worthy of a listen again. Here are the team in action and the interview in full.

This morning the children of Westwood Radio had the privilege of taking part in a truly international and intercontinental live interview with Russell Prue who was broadcasting Live from Dubai on NetSupportRadio at the GESS 2017 Conference!

Broadcasting from the World Trade Centre at 3pm local time and 11am GMT, Russell linked up with us on Skype and we were able to have a fascinating conversation about our radio station, what we enjoy about school radio and how we put together our broadcasts each week. With their usual eloquence and enthusiasm, the children were superb, answering questions from Russell and also from some local students who took part in the broadcast, which was a great experience for everyone and an interesting cultural discussion.

Here are both sides of the microphone, with Russell in Dubai and us in our Westwood Radio studio. Listen again using the player below.

This week’s group have been hard at work this lunchtime planning a fantastic show for Friday. With the usual class news PLUS some special features and, hopefully, an interview with one of our parents who only won the Bath Half Marathon Women’s race!

We’d love you to get in touch and this week Izzy is on the emails so she will be waiting for your emails and texts to read out live during the show. 078600 17404 is the text number and radio@westwoodwithiford.org is our email. Here is this week’s show order:

This afternoon after school radio club met again and this week we have been working on our broadcasting technique. This included the way in which we introduce ourselves, handovers, intros and outros, along with playing beds under people when they are speaking and using a range of jingles to make our broadcasts varied.

For today’s session, the children were asked to speak unscripted about their class visits that they had been on this week. With confidence growing week on week and Luke and Lennie doing a tremendous first time job on the mics and jingles, it was another fantastic session.

Today was another fantastic broadcast by our team which included an interview with Mrs Sage, one of our TAs, some special reports on Lotus and Orchid class trips and the usual mix of top stories, class and community news. Our song choices for today were Rock a bye by Clean Bandit and Skin by Rag n Bone man. Rock a bye was a clear favourite and we had some great shout outs to read too. Thank you to everyone for joining in. Here is the show to listen again, along with a special ‘behind the scenes’ video of how it looks from our side of the mic when we are on air.